Jeremy Katz (katzj@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > On Sunday, May 10 2009, Jon Stanley said: > > Moreover, with the new architecture support feature in F11, we're now > > supposedly defaulting to an x86_64 kernel on an i686 install if the > > processor supports it (note that I say supposedly because I've not > > personally tested it). Thus you have an x86_64 kernel, and all of the > > goodness that brings, but you still have an i686 userspace. > > Due to some complications, we fell back to the contingency and aren't > installing the x86_64 kernel on the 32bit distro at all for F11 quite a > while ago[1] To elaborate: - yum uses the running architecture to determine $basearch to use in your repo files - Hence, installing an x86_64 kernel means yum immediately switches you to the x86_64 repo. Oops. Also, you'd need one of: - rpm code to allow installing x86_64 kernels when the host arch was x86 *OR* - syslinux/grub code for automatically picking the right kernel, and anaconda changes to ship both on the image While we did create some patches, fixing this in a way that simultaneously: - didn't require changes to existing repo files - wasn't extremely gross is non-trivial. Bill -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
